Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-19
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Cspts'n Burke Burnett has lately re-
turned from his I Fork ranch in Wichita
county, aud reports his herds in good
condition.
The recent rains nave put cowmen in
good heart ali over the country, fer the
grass was beginning to need moisture
ssdly. Ole or two more showers will
put the range in frst-class fix, and cattle
will enter en- the winter season under
favorable auspices.
Dr.. j. B. Elliott, V. S j, left Tuesday
for Co.tle county where he has Q contract
to spay 5000 female cattle for the Matador
Lard and Cattle company Of this city.
The Doctor has had extensive experience
in this art over the west, AID says the
practice is greatly on the Increase,
being one CT the methods adopted by beef
producers to lessen production. He has
lately dchorned & good many cattle also,
and is so greatly impressed with the
Z iliiy CT it, that he thinks the time not
far distant when it will be the general
custom Of the country. 1t is by no means
certain, however, that this will come
to pass since out OF q great many owners
interviewed on the subject, the rustler
has been unable to find single one that
indorses dehorning. On the other hand
they condemn it as barbaroue ana useless.
The process of breaking in wild Texas
horses that have been jerked right "of
the grass" to have the bits put in their
mou;h for the first time, is feature in
ranch lie n the west on which g
tenderfoot gsZes with establishment.
1t is generally performed by some hardy
COWBOY, skilled in the business and care
less of personal Danger. He wraps g
great roll of stuff about the horn of the
saddle, tightens the girth fastenicgs till
the animal can hardly breathe, and
then with Lightning spring
vaults into the saddle. Then the fun
commences-tun To the spectators,
but almost death TO the rider. A green
horn who has ever been entrepped into
mounting one of these brutes will tell you
that shaking up by an earthquake or being
tossed en- the rs gged edge of cyclone ls
mild; humane and pleasant treatment com
pared 10 the misery that awaits the man
who trusts himself on the hurricane
deck CT one of these Texas "brcnchOs "
"PItchiGg" is what the cowmen call it,
and the word is apropos. The brorcho
has got pitching down to q fine art, or
rather is born with knowledge OF it.
He pitches you forward with his nose TO
/ the ground, and his hind feet ell
most straight up in the sir. Be-
! fore you have time to think
what made that sick feeling
in the abdominal region, he hes pitched
you sideways and half way out of the
saddle. You recover to find him Jump
Jog in stiff kneed sort OF way about
ten feet at Jump, and the sick feeling
in the stomach increases and the head
commences to swim, and in vsgue Won
dering way you begin to ask yourself
the question If you will ever see home
and friends again. 1t does not help your
case to hear the unfeeling laughter OF the
wretches who have put up the Job and
who are having the exact amount of fun
they expected out of the proceedings. AL
this time there is no pause in
the pitching, but as the game goes
on it increases in intensity. Il may
be that some relenting spectator will
come to your relief, or that you will come
to on the prairie where a few hours pre-,
viousiy you were pitched from the most
miserable seat man ever tried to hold
down. You are in luck rot to get your
neck broken, though at the time death
would be relief. The rustleI
speaks from the depths Of
bitter experience, as he has
been there. But all this is changed now
A shrewd yankee has invented a machine
whereby the widest horse that ever did
the great bucking act is made ia few
hours time as subservient and docile as q
lsmo. The concern can break in twenty.
four at g clstter, and is now in successful
use in the Union stock yards
st Kansas City. Major Cummings, the
genial travelling agent of the yards, says
that man will be in Fort Worth in g
day or two to demonstrate their efficiency
and will probably put one in permanent
operation here and at San Antonio, as lhs
TWO great live stock centers of Texas.